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of your life.”
    â€œBarb, I love this woman.”
    â€œYou may love her, but she isn’t in love with you, Larry. I just overheard her and her little stripper friend in the room talking.”
    â€œSo that’s what this is about. You still can’t get past the fact that Nina used to be a stripper. You won’t be satisfied unless I marry someone who is a Bible-toting Christian like you. You want me to be with someone who goes to Sunday School every week, can speak in tongues, and is in four or five different ministries at the church.”
    â€œLarry, I won’t deny that I would like for you to marry a more spiritual woman. You know that’s what Mama and Daddy would have wanted. But the fact of the matter is, I would support you marrying anyone whom I felt really loved you for your mind and not your money.”
    â€œBarbara, I love you, but you are out of line.”
    â€œMaybe I am, but I would be mad at myself if I didn’t tell you what I just heard.”
    â€œWhat did you hear?”
    â€œI heard Nina say that she could learn to love you. Larry, you deserve better. More importantly, my niece deserves a stepmother who genuinely cares about her. Nina couldn’t care less about being a mother to Chrissy.”
    â€œBarb, I don’t need to hear all of this one hour before my wedding. Besides, Nina has always been good to Chrissy, just like I’ve been good to her daughter, Precious.”
    â€œNo, Larry. Nina tolerates Chrissy; there’s a difference. Chrissy has special needs and I don’t think Nina is equipped to take onthat responsibility. Baby, she’s just happy you took her out of the strip club. Please, sweetie, I’m begging you, don’t marry this woman.”
    Larry finished adjusting his tie in the mirror and then he turned to look at his sister. Barbara had always been his biggest supporter. Rarely did she ever question his decisions, which is why Larry was unwilling to totally ignore her protest. He believed Barbara when she said she overheard Nina making those remarks, but he couldn’t change the fact that he was captivated by Nina.
    As he stood there watching his sister’s eyes fill with water, Larry could feel his pride and his heart at war. Barbara’s information wasn’t anything new to Larry. He knew Nina wasn’t in love with him, but when it came to love, his heart was stubborn.
    â€œBarbara, I’m marrying Nina, whether you like it or not,” Larry finally stated in a low tone, and then walked into the bathroom and closed the door behind him.
    To understand his determination to wed the beautiful Nina Arcenaux, you’d have to understand the weird circumstances surrounding how they first met.
    Larry became smitten with Nina the moment he saw her dancing on stage. His heart was seized by her beauty, her voluptuous body, and the sensuality she displayed. She seemed to ignore all of the other men in the club and focused solely on him.
    After fantasizing about her for nearly two years, he finally won the heart of the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen. Nina’s attention was the only thing that helped him move past the pain that lingered from his former wife’s death.
    Larry would be the first to admit that Nina was rough around the edges. Prior to meeting him, she didn’t know how to identify the salad fork at the dinner table. She had never experienced a man opening and closing a door for her. Nina had never traveled on an airplane or even knew what a passport looked like. She wasthe kind of woman whose good looks and figure afforded her the luxury of being less refined.
    Growing up in the rough St. Bernard housing projects in New Orleans, Nina wasn’t exposed to etiquette classes. Her idea of a nice dinner was eating a plate of her grandmother’s jambalaya and drinking a large cup of ice-cold grape Kool-Aid as she sat on the second-floor balcony and watched the drug dealers, thugs,